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Before you grab your pitchforks and hot tar, I just want to make a quick point: for me, the iPhone is basically an iPod duct taped onto a phone. Of the 28-some odd gigabytes of space available, 98 percent of that is devoted to music.

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Facebook is still figuring out what a good video is supposed to look like - and in the process, it could give businesses and brands a new avenue to reach its 1.35 billion users organically once again. The number of videos users in the U.S.

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Facebook's Oculus Rift virtual reality headset - and the VR industry in general - still have a technical problem to solve as they push to turn the technology mainstream: Using it makes some people feel sick.

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Just before the Oculus Rift Kickstarter campaign launched, Brendan Iribe brought what looked like a large hunk of plastic into the San Francisco offices of Unity Technologies, whose game development platform is one of the industry's most widely used.

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With just a few hours left in 2014, Snapchat has confirmed it raised a massive funding round. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Snapchat reported it raised just over $485 million. Mitch Lasky, a partner at Benchmark, and Michael Lynton, the CEO of Sony, are listed in the filing.

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IBM once stood alongside Microsoft and Intel as icons at the forefront of the technology industry. But now, it's on its way to making history - and not in the good way. The technology company is sent to end 2014 as the worst performing stock among the 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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Another week, another rumor that Dick Costolo is losing his job. This time, the mention comes from Robert Peck, an analyst at SunTrust who said "there's a good chance he's not there in a year." Peck made the call on CNBC earlier today. Indeed, the whispers that Costolo's time is running out have been getting louder.

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Following up on leaks of a number of private email correspondences of Snapchat executives that included Michael Lynton, the CEO of Sony Pictures, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel expressed outrage in a letter he tweeted this afternoon. "I've been feeling a lot of things since our business plans were made public last night," he wrote in a message to his team, which he also tweeted.

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In the past couple of years, how have you seen the way people communicate on the Internet change over time? Adam D'Angelo: Things are getting more verticalized. In the past people used to set up their own website, and there were lots of different platforms. You could use lots of different software to make a website, every website looked different.

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In 2009, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever - two former early Facebook employees - were planning to build something new. They had not told anyone about the project, but word about the pair's activity spread - and that got the attention of Keith Rabois, an early PayPal executive.